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School Libraries

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including information about school libraries in the school census return.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
29 Nov 2024
Target answer date
4 Dec 2024
Answer
4 Dec 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including information about school libraries in the school census return.

  2. 4 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 4 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The department has no current plans to collect any specific data about school libraries in the school census.The school census is the department’s primary source of administrative data about pupils attending schools in England. We keep the content of all ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

Possible follow-up questions

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Schools: Finance

2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department allocated to (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Mid Cheshire constituency, (ii) Cheshire and (iii) England in each of the last 10 years.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pupils: Per Capita Costs

2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average per-pupil funding was that her Department allocated to (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in (i) Mid Cheshire constituency, (ii) Cheshire and (iii) England in each year since 2010.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Children: Reading

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School Libraries

10 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of school libraries on pupils' (a) attainment and (b) wellbeing.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Young People: Unemployment

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Education: Standards

16 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to tackle inequalities in education outcomes in (a) Mid Cheshire constituency, (b) Cheshire and (c) England.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Teachers: Labour Turnover and Recruitment

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Pupils: Absenteeism

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Politics: Curriculum

20 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including political education in the national curriculum.

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Students: Artificial Intelligence

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